Safety squat bar squat
-It’s a squat, but it’s not nearly as technical as a straight bar squat, and it absolutely murders the upper/mid back, making it also a great deadlift builder. You can petty much hit everything from calves to the neck with this movement.
Chin ups
-Basic, effective movement. Makes people bigger and stronger. Additionally, the SSB is taking care of back thickness, so this would aid with width. Millions of ways to program it.
Strict press
-If you can press heavy shit over your head, you can press heavy shit in any direction. Strong people are strong overhead. If we’re talking physique again, wide, rounded/capped shoulders are more imposing and impressive to me than a large/barrel chest.
For programming, I’d do something like
SSB Squat
3x5
Strict Press
3x5
1xAMAP w/50% of previous load
Sub maximal chins done in between sets of everything above
Finish workout w/ 1x20 of SSB squats
At least as a start. Tons of room for variety.
Sheiko 29 minus the assistance work, and with the trap bar instead of regular dead lifts.
Edit, everything would just be the full lift; no partials or variations
dumbbell curlz for biz - on the balance ball for my abs
Calf raizes (that’s all you see whan i wear shortz lol)
bench - every monday with the broz
But seriously-
Prowler Push
Snatch Low Pulls
Chins
Incline Pushups (with a weighted vest)
Goblet Squats
Widegrip High Pulls From Blocks
(…I workout at home)
Back Squat
Chins
OH Press
This is tough
Dips - Tri, chest, shoulders
Cleans & Jerk - shoulders, upper back, quads, posterior chain, & it’s explosive
Deadlift (probably with DS bar) - Most of the body
I think you could make a pretty balanced program with these 3.
back squat
weighted dips
weighted parallel grip chin-up
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
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Yeah, that form of training has worked for a LONG time.
If size was the only concern and there wasn’t going to be a contest for specific lifts and just solely for muscle mass gain:
- Deadlifts
- Dips alternated with overhead press
- Alternate with rows and pullups
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…your top 3 exercises are deadlifts dips overhead press rows and pull ups?.. seems legit.
Heavy Db Lunges
Low Incline Bench
Weighted Chinups
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
Push press
Back squat
Snatch Deadlift[/quote]
cant argue with this.
HS Preacher Curls
DB Curls
1-arm standing cable curls
…j/k
any stiff-leg DL variant
hack squats
incline DB press
I’d have to go with: Deadlifts, weighted dips, and the one arm barbell rows that John Meadows has popularized